Notices by Sean Heber (bigzaphod@mastodon.social), page 3

@Gargron I think this is a generally good move, but I hope this rule doesn't accidentally ban memes.

@Gargron

It looks like we only lost 0.6% of Project Tapestry backers due to credit card failures.

Just realized today is March 0th.

Just think, if Elon had waited a couple of years, he could have bought 11 million Apple Vision Pros instead of Twitter.

OMG less than $500 away! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry

Wow! The Project Tapestry kickstarter just crossed 50%! 🎉 I hope this means we can make it across the finish line before the end!

I just saw a banner ad that I thought said, "HEALTHY POUTINE" and I'm thinking to myself, "that's impossible and defeats the point of poutine and yet I'm now intrigued..." Then I realized it actually said, "HEALTHY ROUTINE" at which point I immediately lost interest in it.

Petition to rename the "delete" key to "yeet."

Just showed the kids Windows 95 running in a browser (🤯) and the thing they were amazed about is how clean it was. No toolbars everywhere, no junk in the task bar, nothing that looked like ads, etc. It's sad how things have evolved.

@Sonikku haha - classic.

There's a very fine line between a jokey troll reply that's fun and an asshole troll reply that can ruin someone's day. I don't quite know where that line is, but for the first type, I can respect it and might even enjoy it and respond/fav/whatever. The second kind tempts me to use the block button.

I usually assume most people are trying to be lighthearted and so I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt but do and say nothing. Still, though, it gnaws at me that I may never know for sure.

Homemade deep dish pizza!

I spent much of yesterday researching options to send transactional emails from https://indiestorygeek.com (things like "welcome new user" and "here's your password reset link") because Gmail temporarily banned us for a few hours the day before and I didn't want that to happen again.

My oldest just brought in his Arduino and breadboard and said, "Look what I made! Press the button!"

I press it and it started playing "Never Gonna Give You Up" on the piezo speaker.

Weird that Zuck's announcement of testing Mastodon for Threads doesn't include a link to a post on Mastodon that came from Threads.

Of course everyone is totally taking his word for it without any evidence.

Dammit! The frickin' dishwasher doesn't work. I had all that trouble with it awhile back and managed to fix it myself, but now the problem is that it fills and drains but the main motor doesn't seem to run. There must not be any feedback in the design because the wash timer happily counts down but there's no sound and nothing is happening.

Kind of sick of this GE dishwasher and maybe it's time to just replace the whole thing.

Ended up with a new Maytag dishwasher which may or may not be good (it was often second place on various lists I came across and it was on sale presumably because its now the “old” model). It took over 3 hours to install the stupid thing myself. Very grumpy. This is the 4th dishwasher in 9 years. A few months ago we needed a new fridge and new tires. Earlier this year was a new water softener and water heater. We’ve gone from no debt to ~2 months behind. I don’t imagine it’s going to get better.

@dustin oh geez. WiFi?! lol. Our model is simpler than that. I hope it lasts, but I have real doubts about modern appliances.

Did I just subtly reword a 10 line source code comment so that the left and right ends of each line were perfectly aligned with each other so the entire block of text looked cooler?

Yes. Yes I did.